Armenia -Turkey Cinema Platform (ATCP) Project Development Workshop will be held in Istanbul on 10-12 April 2016 as a parallel event to 36th Istanbul Film Festival.

The workshop will consist of presentations, one to one meetings and project pitches. The winner of the workshop will be awarded a prize of 7,500 Euros by European Union.

This year, platform has received 42 project applications from Armenia, Turkey, and Diaspora. The following 10 projects were chosen by the pre-selection committee from Armenia and Turkey. The 10 selected projects are:

The jury members of the Istanbul meeting are; Melek Ulagay Taylan, documentary filmmaker, Vrej Kassouny, Armenia representative for Eurimages and director of Reanimania Film Festival of Armenia, Emine Yıldırım, producer, Raffi Movsisyan, programmer of Golden Apricot International Film Festival and Gulengul Altıntaş, scholar and script advisor.

ATCP began in 2008 as cooperation between Anadolu Kültür (Turkey) and the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (Armenia). It is a common network for the filmmakers of both countries for cooperation and making films together. ATCP has supported the production of 20 films by filmmakers from Armenia and Turkey since it was established.

Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) in collaboration with TOG (Community Volunteers Foundation, Turkey) organised an exchange visit of Armenia-based youth workers and volunteers to Istanbul, Izmit and Eskişehir on July 18-23, 2017 implemented as a part of EPF’s YouthBank activity within the framework of programme Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process, funded by the European Union.